UC Press is honored to celebrate our authors Tey Meadow and Aldon Morris, who are included among the 2020 American Sociological Association awards recipients. 2020 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award The winner of …
Read More >“What determines the worth of an academic idea in any field is controlled by its gatekeepers, and in disciplines in the West, they have always been white.”
Read More >To kick off the holidays, we’re offering a 30% discount on these biographies and critical readings of key figures of the past and present. From jazz greats to robber barons, and authors …
Read More >“I’ve always been interested as a sociologist and a researcher in trying to better understand how issues related to race, gender, and inequality persist in professional workplaces.” — Adia Harvey Wingfield, author …
Read More >September 23 – 28 is 2019’s Banned Books Week. Held annually since 1982 and sponsored by the American Library Association and the American Booksellers Association, Banned Books Week is celebrated “in shared …
Read More >On Sept. 11 , 2019, the Smithsonian-affiliated Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, PA hosted Carnegie Mellon University professor Joe William Trotter, Jr. for a celebration of his new book Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.
Read More >By Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American …
Read More >At this year’s American Sociological Association conference, we celebrate the work of our award-winning authors. Congratulations to our wonderful scholars, teachers, and activists. #ASA19 #ScholarActivist Abigail Leslie Andrews, Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the …
Read More >By Celeste Watkins-Hayes, author of Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological …
Read More >By Andrea S. Boyles, author of You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the …
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